[buug] Hello

Matt Bockman bonkers at thetechbox.com
Wed Nov 27 16:40:47 PST 2002


Well, right now my router is my main server, are you reccommending that I
run 2 boxes, one as a firewall/router another as my server? I don't have the
resources to run two boxes, I can only have one server and it must run all
of the networking services.

~Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Read" <unixjavabob at yahoo.com>
To: "Matt Bockman" <bonkers at thetechbox.com>; <Buug at weak.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [buug] Hello


> Hey Matt,
>    As far as network setup, you probably want to
> dedicate a router to your "techbox" IP address, and
> put your Mandrake/FreeBSD boxes "behind" the router.
> Then, you run NAT somewhere (probably on the router).
> This way, when you "switch", you just update your NAT
> settings.
>
> Later,
> Bob
>
>
> --- Matt Bockman <bonkers at thetechbox.com> wrote:
> > Hello Everyone, My name is Matt and I'm a 14 year
> > old  computer techie dude. I live in San Diego,
> > California. I'm trying to set up a replacement
> > server for my old server. Actually, the server I'm
> > going to replace it with is a little bit slower,
> > about 500mhz less. My current server
> > (thetechbox.com) runs Mandrake Linux and has the
> > following functions:
> >
> > Route IP address (2 network cards)
> > Serve Web PAges (thetechbox.com)
> > email (Qmail)
> > and I have FTP just for putting up my files and
> > stuff for my site.
> >
> > I want to use my 350 machine to run FreeBSD, but I
> > want to prepare it so that I can switch the servers
> > and in a matter of a few minutes have them it up and
> > running. That means I'll have to get apache, qmail,
> > and NAT running before I move the server. The hard
> > part about the whole thing is the email, which is
> > worse yet because I'm putting another network card
> > which will give me a diffrent IP address, so I"ll
> > have to change it with my domain name thing. I guess
> > I could switch the network cards so that my cable IP
> > address remains the same. I don't know. I'm very new
> > to FreeBSD and don't know a thing about it.
> >
> > ~Matt
> >
>
>
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